Bach: The Six Sonatas & Partitas / Tedi Papavrami

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In writing his six Sonatas and Partitas, J.S. Bach places himself, right from the very title, under the invocation, the divine patronage of absence: 'Sei solo a violino senza basso accompagnato' - and this at the height of the reign, the dictatorship of the bass! 'Bâtir sur la pointe d'une aiguille', built on the point of a needle', Baudelaire would say a century later. one can write a bass by itself, as the Italians did, for it is pregnant with a thousand trebles, one need only let it give birth; but a melody without bass? Assuredly the idea is absurd. Bach did it.In writing his six Sonatas and Partitas, J.S. Bach places himself, right from the very title, under the invocation, the divine patronage of absence: 'Sei solo a violino senza basso accompagnato' - and this at the height of the reign, the dictatorship of the bass! 'Bâtir sur la pointe d'une aiguille', built on the point of a needle', Baudelaire would say a century later. one can write a bass by itself, as the Italians did, for it is pregnant with a thousand trebles, one need only let it give birth; but a melody without bass? Assuredly the idea is absurd. Bach did it. Read less

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